I haven't seen anyone wear a wrisrtwatch in years, other than a few people who bought an iwatch right when they came out and haven't worn them again in years. So yeah, this seems accurate.
Nobody wants a smartwatch. The market was never big, and is shrinking. They serve no purpose that your smartphone doesn't already fill, better. Their market is literally people too lazy to take their phone out of their pocket. Just accept that nobody found the reality as cool as it seemed in Dick Tracy comics in the 30s, and let it die already.
So you agree there's restrictions on what I can do with my property- I can't do anything to someone else's property with it. So you agree that my rights to my property can be restricted. Great. Now understand we can and will restrict it for other reasons if we see it in the best interest of society- just like we restrict me from using it to kill you for the best interest of society.
Piece of advice- when you argue from absolutes like that you look like a particularly dumb 2 year old. Reality is more complicated and more nuanced. Find an argument for why your ability to rent it out is more valuable than what we gain by preventing it and you'll have a case. Just whining libertarian principles doesn't do anything but preach to the choir- and nobody believes in libertarianism as a working way of running society.
Great. I agree. I own a gun. I want to shoot you with it. After all, I should be able to do anything I want with my property.
Oh, you have a problem with that? Welcome to the real world. You have to play nice with others, which means accepting restrictions. Don't like it? Too bad.
Because it is hurting their neighbors and the city.
Renting an appartment on Air BnB removes it from the long term rental pool. This increases housing costs for everyone else, due to lower supply.
Renting an apartment to different people every night brings in additional crime risk and noise levels that their neighbors didn't want to be exposed to. And that's not even counting the number of AirBnB houses used for illegal drug deals and wild parties.
Renting these apartments isn't safe. There's a reason why the various safety laws exist for hotels. These apartments don't follow them.
If you want to rent your house, apply for a zoning change to become a hotel. And follow all applicable laws. Until then, no renting.
Tablets in general have flopped- sales are tanking (more than 20M fewer sold in 2017 vs 2016). This is the 3rd straight year of declining sales. Android tablets aren't doing any worse than the rest of the market. Tablets are rarely updated, and never really interested the majority of the market.
No, you're just living in denial. There is NOWHERE in the world with more distractions than my home. TV, radio, projects, family, pets. I get 10% of what I get done in the office when I'm at home. And that ratio is what I generally see in all my coworkers too. I have never, in 17 years of working with people doing it, seen it work from a productivity standpoint. I've seen it work from a retention standpoint, but always at a loss of at least 50% productivity.
I don't think the jury is out either- I think its in, and in the other direction. ALmost nobody is more effective working from home. Between the built in distractions (family, TV, radio, environment) and the lower level of communications, people get far less done at home than they do coming in and concentrating. And that's not counting the tendency to cheat on hours and spend less time working when nobody is checking. I have never seen someone go from working at the office to working from home without a massive drop in output, and the drop generally increased as they became lazier at home over time.
Only chicken breast is quality? You need to look at the insane number of wings sold, and the large number of people who prefer dark meat. That comment was just stupid.
My average total bill is $33 or so. 20 for call/text, 10 for data, and a few bucks in taxes. I save $500+ a year from when I had an unlimited plan. On top of that its still the same price when I leave the country. Oh, and it will automatically log into free wifi and VPN me to protect my data and save me from using charged cellular data while walking around. If you use less than 6 GB a month (which is the vast majority of people), its the best deal out there.
Project Fi isn't supposed to take off. Its supposed to put pricing and behavior pressure on the big carriers. For that it doesn't need to be big, it just needs to be enough of a threat to stop them from acting badly.
Sure they could. Throw a turnip at someone. It proves you exist. Write a message on the turnip bulb before you throw it. Now you have a message board. Still more useful than bitcoin.
Who wants to go to a convenience or grocery store once a week, when you can do it from a web browser and not stand in line, not waste time looking up and down aisles, and have it delivered to your door?
ActionBarSherlock is a replacement for a piece of Android Architecture to backport functionality that existed in 4.0+ to 2.2+ (or thereabouts). Its been deprecated for years, as nobody writes for those old versions, and Google has been releasing their own backporting libraries for years. So no, its not reasonable.
It was likely a feature to them. "We'll put a stop in your hotel if you pay for it. And we'll put it in the back of the hotel so they need to walk through it".
And its generally set up that to get to it you have to go through the hotels, on a twisty route going through their gaming and stores. You spend 20 minutes going to/from on each side. That's why it failed.
You can dilute to the point that current investors are unwilling to approve the deal. Or that debt owners call the loans due. The smartest investors in uber right now are the ones with debt stakes- they get interest, and when uber eventually defaults (highly likely) they'll get first dibs on the company and likely own a multiple of the percentage they would from an equity stake.
Yes, speculators and criminal organizations looking to funnel money without having official bank transactions that can be traced. Nobody is using it to buy anything other than illegal drugs.
Great. So I'm a local electronics store. I sell someone a laptop for.1 BTC. Fair deal. That transaction is queued for a few days. He wants to walk out of the store with the laptop today. Either the store takes a huge risk of fraud (or even mistake), or the user can't get what he buys for days. Which is why anyone who thinks this is a workable currency is a fucking idiot.
And if people decide they want to take a low odds gamble, that's their choice. I bought a ticket for the 300 million lottery this week. The 2 bucks is worth it for the daydreaming of being rich
Slashdot Mirror
I haven't seen anyone wear a wrisrtwatch in years, other than a few people who bought an iwatch right when they came out and haven't worn them again in years. So yeah, this seems accurate.
Nobody wants a smartwatch. The market was never big, and is shrinking. They serve no purpose that your smartphone doesn't already fill, better. Their market is literally people too lazy to take their phone out of their pocket. Just accept that nobody found the reality as cool as it seemed in Dick Tracy comics in the 30s, and let it die already.
So you agree there's restrictions on what I can do with my property- I can't do anything to someone else's property with it. So you agree that my rights to my property can be restricted. Great. Now understand we can and will restrict it for other reasons if we see it in the best interest of society- just like we restrict me from using it to kill you for the best interest of society.
Piece of advice- when you argue from absolutes like that you look like a particularly dumb 2 year old. Reality is more complicated and more nuanced. Find an argument for why your ability to rent it out is more valuable than what we gain by preventing it and you'll have a case. Just whining libertarian principles doesn't do anything but preach to the choir- and nobody believes in libertarianism as a working way of running society.
Great. I agree. I own a gun. I want to shoot you with it. After all, I should be able to do anything I want with my property.
Oh, you have a problem with that? Welcome to the real world. You have to play nice with others, which means accepting restrictions. Don't like it? Too bad.
Because it is hurting their neighbors and the city.
Renting an appartment on Air BnB removes it from the long term rental pool. This increases housing costs for everyone else, due to lower supply.
Renting an apartment to different people every night brings in additional crime risk and noise levels that their neighbors didn't want to be exposed to. And that's not even counting the number of AirBnB houses used for illegal drug deals and wild parties.
Renting these apartments isn't safe. There's a reason why the various safety laws exist for hotels. These apartments don't follow them.
If you want to rent your house, apply for a zoning change to become a hotel. And follow all applicable laws. Until then, no renting.
Tablets in general have flopped- sales are tanking (more than 20M fewer sold in 2017 vs 2016). This is the 3rd straight year of declining sales. Android tablets aren't doing any worse than the rest of the market. Tablets are rarely updated, and never really interested the majority of the market.
No, you're just living in denial. There is NOWHERE in the world with more distractions than my home. TV, radio, projects, family, pets. I get 10% of what I get done in the office when I'm at home. And that ratio is what I generally see in all my coworkers too. I have never, in 17 years of working with people doing it, seen it work from a productivity standpoint. I've seen it work from a retention standpoint, but always at a loss of at least 50% productivity.
I don't think the jury is out either- I think its in, and in the other direction. ALmost nobody is more effective working from home. Between the built in distractions (family, TV, radio, environment) and the lower level of communications, people get far less done at home than they do coming in and concentrating. And that's not counting the tendency to cheat on hours and spend less time working when nobody is checking. I have never seen someone go from working at the office to working from home without a massive drop in output, and the drop generally increased as they became lazier at home over time.
I other words, in pure bullshit. Technical are random patterns and luck, not market fundamentals you should rely on.
Only chicken breast is quality? You need to look at the insane number of wings sold, and the large number of people who prefer dark meat. That comment was just stupid.
My average total bill is $33 or so. 20 for call/text, 10 for data, and a few bucks in taxes. I save $500+ a year from when I had an unlimited plan. On top of that its still the same price when I leave the country. Oh, and it will automatically log into free wifi and VPN me to protect my data and save me from using charged cellular data while walking around. If you use less than 6 GB a month (which is the vast majority of people), its the best deal out there.
Project Fi isn't supposed to take off. Its supposed to put pricing and behavior pressure on the big carriers. For that it doesn't need to be big, it just needs to be enough of a threat to stop them from acting badly.
bullshit works for me.
Sure they could. Throw a turnip at someone. It proves you exist. Write a message on the turnip bulb before you throw it. Now you have a message board. Still more useful than bitcoin.
Who wants to go to a convenience or grocery store once a week, when you can do it from a web browser and not stand in line, not waste time looking up and down aisles, and have it delivered to your door?
ActionBarSherlock is a replacement for a piece of Android Architecture to backport functionality that existed in 4.0+ to 2.2+ (or thereabouts). Its been deprecated for years, as nobody writes for those old versions, and Google has been releasing their own backporting libraries for years. So no, its not reasonable.
It was likely a feature to them. "We'll put a stop in your hotel if you pay for it. And we'll put it in the back of the hotel so they need to walk through it".
And its generally set up that to get to it you have to go through the hotels, on a twisty route going through their gaming and stores. You spend 20 minutes going to/from on each side. That's why it failed.
You can dilute to the point that current investors are unwilling to approve the deal. Or that debt owners call the loans due. The smartest investors in uber right now are the ones with debt stakes- they get interest, and when uber eventually defaults (highly likely) they'll get first dibs on the company and likely own a multiple of the percentage they would from an equity stake.
Yes, speculators and criminal organizations looking to funnel money without having official bank transactions that can be traced. Nobody is using it to buy anything other than illegal drugs.
Great. So I'm a local electronics store. I sell someone a laptop for .1 BTC. Fair deal. That transaction is queued for a few days. He wants to walk out of the store with the laptop today. Either the store takes a huge risk of fraud (or even mistake), or the user can't get what he buys for days. Which is why anyone who thinks this is a workable currency is a fucking idiot.
And if people decide they want to take a low odds gamble, that's their choice. I bought a ticket for the 300 million lottery this week. The 2 bucks is worth it for the daydreaming of being rich
If the phone doesn't let you do use another app store, it should be sued for anti-trust.
I print about 3 or 4 pages a year, in a big year. Not worth owning a printer. In an emergency, I'll go to FedEx.
And bitcoin actually has built in deflation. Which is a fucking horrible idea.